Jesus to the Suicidal

My Dear Beloved Child,

I love you and I, together with the Father and the Holy Spirit have loved you from all eternity as the prophet Jeremiah told you, “With age-old love I have loved you; so I have kept my mercy toward you” (Jer. 31:3).  Please, my child, reject the thoughts that urge you to take your own life.  These thoughts do not come from my Holy Spirit.  Your life is a gift not just to you but to all those others who are surrounding your earthly journey.  You were created to live in joyful union with Us forever. 

 I know that life on earth can be difficult.  Remember that I walked the roads of your world.  I sweated blood in the garden as I grieved over so many souls who would reject the Gift of My Precious Blood of Redemption that I was about to pour out on the Cross.  Please do not reject My Love! You think that you have sinned too much to be forgiven, but that is a lie! My Mercy is Infinite—that means it is greater than all the sins that can possibly be committed combined.  Even if you were the only one I would have poured out all My Blood to reassure you of my love and my mercy for you.  

 I created you in my own image and likeness and I gave you a mission on the earth which is yours alone and it is irreplaceable.  I am with you every moment.  Call on Me.  We will walk together through the sorrows of earth to the eternal joy that is awaiting you.  Call also on my Mother, Mary because I entrusted you to her Motherly Care as I was dying on the cross for you (John 19:27).  Call on all the Angels and Saints to join their prayers to yours because they are your invisible companions on the journey to eternity.  Console My Heart by accepting the cross of your earthly sorrows and trusting in My everlasting Love for you.   "Because you are precious in my eyes and glorious, and because I love you" (Isaia 43:4).

All my Love,

 Jesus Christ

Guardian Angels Want to Help Us

Every October 2^nd the Catholic Church celebrates a feast in honor of the Guardian Angels.  In the Gospel of St. Matthew Jesus tells His Apostles, “See that you do not despise one of these little ones; for I tell you their angels in heaven always behold the face of my Father in heaven.  For the Son of Man came to save what was lost” (Mt 18:10).

 It is very important to realize that every person has his or her own personal Guardian Angel sent by God just to watch over each of us and to inspire us to make the choices that will lead us to the everlasting joy of eternal union with God and our loved ones.  Also each person who is contemplating suicide or who has already committed suicide has a Guardian Angel.  Angels are outside of time and they have the power to bring the consolation of God to people.  We see this in the Agony in the Garden where Jesus was in such great anguish and where God the Father sent Him an angel of consolation (cf. Luke 22:43).  St. Padre Pio who was a Catholic priest who died in 1968 had the gift of always being able to see his own and other peoples’ Guardian Angels.  St. Padre Pio used to receive letters from people all over the world in many different languages.  If he did not know the language of the letter he had received, his Guardian Angel would translate it for him.  There is a whole book about this called Send Me Your Guardian Angel by Fr. Alessio Parente.  What is important to the members of LAST to know is that Padre Pio used to advise people to send him their Guardian Angels.  We can still do this now that Padre Pio is a Saint in Heaven.  I can say, “Dear Guardian Angel, please go to Padre Pio and ask him to pray for (whoever God has particularly put upon my heart).  Of course we can also pray directly to Padre Pio or more especially directly to God, but God likes it when we make use of intercessors because it is humble and respectful and increases the love power of our request.

You Are The Father's Beloved.

You are the Father’s Beloved.

No matter what anguish you are experiencing;

No matter how many sins you have committed;

No matter how many times you have turned away from Him;

No matter what horrible things have happened to you;

No matter if you are very angry with Him for allowing terrible things to happen;

No matter that it seems like your life is totally messed up;

You are and always have been the Father’s Beloved Child.

The Father has created you to be a unique, irreplaceable image of Himself.  No one can take your place.  The Father desires that you enter into a union with His Beloved Son Jesus and His Holy Spirit that will make you unimaginably happy forever.

Today (August 7) is a day that God the Father in an approved private revelation to Mother Eugenia Ravasio in 1932 suggested be established as a feast in His Honor. You can read the whole message at: http://www.theworkofgod.org/God.htm

Up to this point (2013) God the Father has no feast day.  If one is established by the Church it will open up a floodgate of blessings as more and more of God’s beloved children come to realize that they have an Infinite Loving Father Who desires to be known, honored, and loved by them in order to draw them into the happiness He created them to experience.  You can read another article about this on today’s Spirit Daily website: http://www.spiritdaily.com/GodtheFather.htm

Priest Helps Boy Who Had Committed Suicide

Today I read a great article on the Spirit Daily website that shows the power of prayer and especially the power of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass to help people who have committed suicide.  Here is an excerpt from the article:

A priest in Scottsdale, Arizona, has established a chapel for the souls in purgatory in part as a consequence of his own experiences with the departed on the "other side."

Father Doug Lorig, a convert from the Episcopalian faith, now pastor of one of the most prominent parishes in the Phoenix area, says the Lord has used a number of extraordinary mystical experiences to instruct him on the deeper devotions of Catholicism.

In one case he buried a 17-year-old boy named Tony, who had been involved with drugs and committed suicide. "I prayed for him at every Mass for a year and about a year later went to Queen of Heaven Cemetery for another funeral, of newborn, and parked car at far end of cemetery," says Father Doug. "I then went to the canopy and said prayers and consoled the family and was walking back past all these graves and just stopped because someone was calling my name.

"'Father Doug, Father Doug.'

"And there was nobody there.

"I looked down -- and there was Tony's grave! I happened to be right there. And I had a locution.

"I heard him clearly say to me, 'Father Doug: thank you.'"

To read the full article click on: http://www.spiritdaily.com/lorig.htm

For those grieving the loss of a loved one to suicide

This week the son of one of my friends committed suicide.  I called her and talked with her about how her prayers and love were present at the moment that her son died and that even her anguish can become a prayer for him.  Yesterday she called me back and asked me to write a letter to her daughter explaining the things that I had told her on the phone.  I said that I would and that I would also publish it on this blog so that maybe it would be able to help others who are experiencing this terrible grief.  If  you would like to read it, please click on the page that says "letter of consolation."  Feel free to use it to help other people.  We need to stay united in prayer and love and the Holy Spirit so that we can help the many victims of suicide and their families through the Mercy of our Savior Jesus Christ to attain eternal life with our Heavenly Father.  In the end that will be the only thing that really matters.

The Communion of Saints

Tomorrow would have been my mother's 99th birthday.  When she was still on earth I often asked her to pray for my intentions and I know that when I ask her now to pray for my intentions she still does, and she has a much greater power of intercession.  All the people in Heaven are Saints!  That means we all have relatives who are Saints!  We still need to pray for our loved ones who have died because they may need our prayers to get up to Heaven but it should give us great hope that we were all created by God Who is Love and that the way that leads back to Him is Love.  Let us continue to love each other down here on earth but let's not forget to love those who have left the earth and depend on our prayers.  At the same time let's learn to depend on their prayers.  This is what the Communion of Saints means.  Once Jesus said to His enemies who were questioning the Resurrection, "Haven't you read what God spoke to Moses saying 'I am the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.'?  He is not the God of the dead but of the living for all live to him."  Think about the meaning of what Jesus was saying.  Abraham lived about 1900 years before Jesus was born as a man.  He was pointing out that God didn't say, "I was the God of Abraham...."  In other words, Abraham is still alive.  Another time Jesus illustrated that He is God, as well as man, when He said, "Before Abraham came to be, I am."

Ed and Char Reddy, my parents

"Come to Me all you who labor and are burdened"

On this great feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus the very best way to celebrate is to respond to this invitation of His.  Jesus says to you and to me, "Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.  Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for your souls.  For my yoke is easy, and my burden light" (Matthew 11:28-30).  Just turn to Him in your heart and tell Him about all your afflictions, anxieties, sufferings, griefs, anguish, temptations, sicknesses.  And when you have told Him everything leave it all in His Heart.  Now you will see that He is sharing your burden and your heart will have a new capacity to receive the great hope that He has for you and the desire that He has to give you "a future full of hope."